Watch the Cybathlon 2024 event online this weekend!

The CYBATHLON challenge provides a platform for teams across the globe to develop and present technological advances in specific tasks related to the daily lives of people with disabilities.

The CYBATHLON 2024 will take place in a global format from 25 – 27 October 2024 in the SWISS Arena in Kloten and local hubs worldwide. Up to 76 teams from all around the world in eight different disciplines can participate in the CYBATHLON 2024.

Check the program online.

The Cybathlon is an event that takes place every 4 years and is organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, which challenges teams from all over the world around eight events. Its objective: to demonstrate technological advances in assistance in the accomplishment of daily life tasks for people with disabilities.

For the 2024 edition, three teams from ISIR will participate in the challenge:

• The Smart ArM team, specializing in the development of advanced arm prostheses for transhumeral amputees. It is competing in the “Arm Prosthesis Race” category. The events will take place on October 26 (11:35 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.).
• The Smart ArM ROB team: a branch of the Smart ArM team, is committed to the development of new sensorimotor control methods for assistive robotics, particularly in prosthetics and exoskeletons. The team is competing in the “Assistance Robot Race” category, the events of which will be held on October 25 and 26 (6:20 p.m. to 7 p.m. on October 25 and 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on October 26).
• The A-Eye team: is participating in the trials with a project based on sensory substitution and/or augmentation via kinesthetic feedback, offering an innovative approach to guiding visually impaired people. The trials will take place on October 26 and 27 (8:45 p.m. to 9:25 p.m. on October 26 and then 2:10 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on October 27).

All events will be broadcast live from October 25 to 27, 2024.